What is Depression?
Depression can take many forms. It can come in the form of short lived feelings of sadness that most of us suffer in response to disappointments. It can also come in the form of severe depressive disorders which require treatment. Many, many people in Ireland suffer from depression.
How can you Recognise Depression?
If five or more of the following symptoms are present for more than two weeks, it is probably a depressive episode:
- Feeling depressed, sad, anxious or bored.
- Feeling tired, fatigued, everything is an effort, slowed movements.
- Waking during the night or too early in the mornings, oversleeping or trouble getting to sleep.
- Slow thinking, poor concentration, forgetful or indecision.
- Loss of interest in food, work, sex and life seems dull.
- Reduced sense of self-worth, low self esteem or guilt.
- Headaches, chest or other pains without a physical basis.
- Not wanting to live, suicidal thoughts or thinking of death.
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